LAUNCHED: Preview font families on page when cycling through with the arrow keys

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June 22, 2023
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Hello!

There was a feature in Figma, that when you cycled between font families with the arrow keys, the text changed on the page to that font even before confirming the change.

Now with the new font window, you need to confirm your selection to preview the text in your page. If you don’t like it, you need to again open up the fonts window, and go through the process.

Photoshop behavior is much nicer, where you see the fonts in the window, how they are, plus there’s a preview on the page.

I believe this feature was working fine before the updates.

Have a nice day!
Norbert

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Pixl

I’d also love to see this feature back!
I’ve gotten so used to cycling through different fonts with the arrow keys to see what visually fits with the text content already there and now that option is gone.

Josh

Former Community Manager

Hey all thanks for sharing this feedback. This is actually on our radar to bring back! 🙂 There are, however, a few aspects of this feature that we hope to first improve/refine before we do, but will keep this thread updated when possible.

Thanks!

Lacie_Desu_Ka

New Member

Hi, the new version doesn’t allow to change and review fonts by using up/down arrow. Users must click and choose the font without any reviewing how the text would show. This is really hard when making typography design. Please fix it! Thank you.

Zhalgas_Kassymkulov

New Member

Yes! What happened? Bring it back please

MarioRicalde

This change has me severely pissed as I cannot even use the arrow keys on the keyboard to cycle through fonts that I have, I have to click all over the place.

Changes like these make me want to stop using a tool that changes my workflow on a whim.

MarioRicalde

I can’t comprehend how it doesn’t have enough attention. The fact you can’t use the keyboard at all to navigate through the options, or how it closes on it’s own even after you move it away from the sidebar so it doesn’t act like a dropdown.

We need this handled, and it’s infuriating coming from a Design tool.

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maimai

Please take this back

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maimai

*The font preview feature is really important

MarioRicalde

This situation is outrageous, I can’t believe we have been forced to deal with this for so long.

Who thought it was a good idea to remove accessibility from such a critical part of the application? Having to precision click to switch a font for preview is DRIVING ME INSANE.

Keep the damn window open at the very least, it’s aggravating.

In “Figma Learn” there is mention of this feature, and you can see how the window that appears is detached from the sidebar, something that you can do currently… but the thing works like it’s a dropdown.

You click it, and it closes. Leaving it open at the very least sounds like the bare minimum.